heat4life wrote:Troubadour wrote:HIF wrote:
Wade came home and had enough assets to bring Bron and Bosh.
Love and Bron bolted.
The story is in how you tell it. (not that you are passively trolling).
Not trolling. The perception is different when it comes to extending a rookie contract and trading for a player that had been on the block for a year.
The perception is pure bias. Wade was a Miami player - and a champion - for longer than Irving played for the Cavs. He was a returning player. How is it different? Then the Love deal was agreed on BEFORE Lebron announced anything or do you really think not mentioning Wiggins and Bennett was an accident? He learned of this on his secret meeting with Gilbert when he discussed .... the ROSTER.
Look, I don't care about what Lebron did. Good for him. I believe what Miami fans are miffed about is all the crap we get from EVERYONE outside South Florida, especially the bias driven by ESPN. The narrative that what Miami did was horrible and what Cleveland did is glorious is unexplainable.
Plus, it's not as if we just coincidentally came into the position of being able to assemble a trio of three maximum players. In year one after LeBron, the Cavs attempted to retool and failed. We attempted to retool after the 06/07 season showed the age and lack of motivation within our championship core and due to them folding (including the whole Shaq saga) and Wade's health, we finally mailed it in after an optimistic retooling attempt in 07/08.
Then our front office developed the plan of entering 2010 free agency with great flexibility. The only reason our teams had better records than those of the Cavs were us having a prime Wade. So while the Cavs tanked and were gifted number one picks, we kept our feet quiet, despite running a huge risk of losing one of the best players in the league. We all remember that Wade wasn't always happy during those times, at least not in 09/10 and rightfully so.
We sacrificed and suffered just as much as the Cavs, while even taking the much bigger risk while they were handed several opportunities to draft franchise talent.
I really don't get how people can be pissed at us but then praise the Cavs for doing it the right way when the right way simply consisted of a s***load of luck.
Bennett looks to be well on his way to bustdom and Wiggins has a better chance (statistically speaking) of becoming the next Isaiah Rider or Dajuan Wagner than he does the next Kobe or Pippen or whoever else they're comparing him to these days.
